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Mr. Barry Jones
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he has commissioned research concerning new policies to lessen the incidence of low pay in (a) Clwyd, (b) Gwynedd, (c) Powys, (d) Mid Glamorgan, (e) South Glamorgan, (f) West Glamorgan, (g) Dyfed and (h) Gwent.
Mr. Peter Walker
No. Economic expansion and new investment are increasing earnings in Wales. Between 1988 and 1989 the average weekly earnings for full-time adults in Wales increased by 9ยท9 per cent., which was a higher increase than in six of the other nine regions of Great Britain.